Emily Burkhardt Vicente
Emily Burkhardt Vicente is a partner with Hunton Andrews Kurth in Los Angeles and co-chairs the firm’s labor and employment group. She has a national practice focusing on complex employment and wage and hour litigation and advice. Ms. Vicente is a trial lawyer who defends employers in complex employment litigation, including California and FLSA wage and hour class and collective actions, California representative PAGA actions, employment discrimination class actions, and complex whistle-blower matters. In addition to her litigation practice, she helps employers develop forward-thinking compliance practices that reduce wage and hour disputes and help mitigate other employment-related risks. Ms. Vicente regularly counsels clients on employment-related matters, including design and implementation of diversity and inclusion programs, ESG initiatives, harassment and discrimination investigations, “me too” issues, fair-pay compliance, negotiation of employment contracts, and the use and implementation of artificial intelligence (AI) and emerging technology in the workplace. She also has<br>successfully guided employers through various stages of pandemic response, including navigating state and federal sick pay laws, furloughs and layoffs, WARN Act requirements and return-to-work issues.Ms. Vicente co-chairs the firm’s diversity & inclusion committee and is a member of the firm’s national associates committee. She also is a regular speaker on labor and employment and class action issues, and is a contributing author to the firm’s Employment & Labor Perspectives blog. Ms. Vicente is admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. District Courts for the Central, Southern, Eastern and Northern Districts of California, the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Ninth and Eleventh Circuits, theU.S. District Courts for the Northern and Middle Districts of Georgia, and the Superior, Appellate andSupreme Courts of California and Georgia. She received her B.A. summa cum laude in 1996 from St.John Fisher College and her J.D. with honors in 1999 from the University of North Carolina at ChapelHill, where she was admitted to the Order of the Coif and the Order of the Barristers.